Dear Carolina Group,
I am composing to enthusiastically announce that Kamrhan Farwell, vice chancellor and chief advertising and communications officer at the University of Missouri, has been named Carolina’s following vice chancellor of communications, efficient Sept. 26. A very highly regarded leader, Farwell provides substantial encounter to this part, most just lately primary a 120-man or woman communications team at the flagship campus recognized as Mizzou, as perfectly as the University of Missouri Procedure.
For the past 4 many years, Farwell has led all institutional communications, together with thorough advertising and media approaches that have served rebuild and bolster the College of Missouri’s status. Through her tenure, freshman enrollment elevated by 30 percent, the establishment celebrated its initially Nobel Prize and legislative assistance grew in 2022 by the optimum percentage in 35 many years.
Groups underneath her management at Mizzou incorporate executive communications, media relations, troubles administration, crisis communications, print and digital publications, marketing and advertising, trademark and branding, situations, net providers, internal communications, social media, images and videography, and strategic marketing and communications. A reliable adviser, Farwell delivers counsel on executive strategy, like aid to the procedure president, college chancellor and procedure Board of Curators. In addition, she has a dotted-line reporting relationship with communications vice chancellors at three other investigation universities in the Missouri Process as very well as communications leaders of the overall health treatment procedure and athletics department.
Colleagues at other leading universities value Farwell’s deep expertise. She was not too long ago selected to be a part of the American Association of University’s General public Affairs Community Steering Committee and has served on the executive committee for the Association of General public and Land-Grant Universities Council for Strategic Communications considering the fact that 2019.
Prior to becoming a member of the College of Missouri, Farwell served for two yrs as assistant vice chancellor for communications at the University of Pittsburgh and five many years as executive editor at the College of Texas at Dallas. In advance of her perform in larger education and learning, Farwell used approximately 20 several years as a journalist in California and Texas, exactly where she led education and learning coverage for a 10 years at the Dallas Early morning News. She gained a bachelor of arts in communications from California Point out University, Fullerton.
Farwell joins a solid and vibrant workforce of talented specialists in College Communications that encourage Carolina’s very good operate each and every day while handling a variety of sophisticated issues facing the establishment and the greater training landscape. I want to categorical my gratitude to Beth Keith and Tanya Moore for their steady management over the past calendar year as interim vice chancellors.
I also thank the look for committee, chaired by Don Baer, senior companion at The Brunswick Team, and Amy Locklear Hertel, govt vice provost, for their diligent function in determining numerous primary candidates for this essential position.
I am confident that Farwell’s depth and breadth of practical experience make her very well positioned to guide the College Communications group into the future period. You should be part of me in featuring your congratulations and welcoming Kamrhan to Carolina.
Sincerely,
Kevin M. Guskiewicz
Chancellor
